Canada’s largest city conducted a pilot project last year to find a consistent outlet for densified foam polystyrene. The effort reached a clear conclusion, but it wasn’t good news.
Canada’s largest city conducted a pilot project last year to find a consistent outlet for densified foam polystyrene. The effort reached a clear conclusion, but it wasn’t good news.
Fiberon, a major end user for recovered PE, will be purchased by a publicly traded company that owns prominent home and security product brands.
Governments in Southeast Asia are following through on promises to heavily restrict scrap imports.
Researchers have calculated substantial upsides from making products out of recycled PET, HDPE and PP instead of prime plastics.
MRFF has found a MRF.
The Materials Recovery for the Future (MRFF) project will partner with a Pennsylvania sorting facility to generate bales of flexible plastic packaging (FPP). Continue Reading
The world’s largest e-commerce company will pay $1.5 million to settle allegations it broke California law on the marketing of plastics as “biodegradable” or “compostable.”
Recovered PET prices have continued their steady rise, while natural and color HDPE values have remained flat over the past month.
The Chinese government plans to levy a 25 percent tariff on scrap plastic, as well as a number of virgin plastics and all recovered paper, in retaliation for the latest U.S. tariff proposals.